Notes

[1]
The article “The Capitalist System of Modern Agriculture” is
the’ first part of a large work on capitalist agriculture in Germany which
Lenin intended to write as a second instalment of his well-known work,
New Data on the Laws of the Development of Capitalism in
Agriculture. Part I. Capitalism and Agriculture in the United States of
America.

The article “The Capitalist System of Modern Agriculture” is included
for the first time in Lenin’s Collected Works. It was published in
1932 in the magazine Bolshevik No. 9 and Lenin Miscellany
XIX after the discovery of part of the manuscript. The succeeding
parts of the manuscript are still missing: the end of Chapter
III—“Peasant Farms under Capitalism”, the beginning and end of Chapter
IV—“Labour of Women and Children In Agriculture”, Chapters V and
VI—“Squandering of Labour in Small-scale Production” and “The
Capitalist Character of the Use of Machinery in Modern Agriculture”.

The end of the article with the signature “V. Ilyin”, as
well as the end of Chapter I (“A General Picture of the Economic System of
Modern Agriculture”) and the beginning of Chapter II (“The Real Nature
of the Majority of Modern Agricultural ‘Farms’ [Proletarian “Farms”]”),
which were missing when the article was published in 1932, have now been,
found; hence Chapters I, II and VII are now published in full for the first
time.